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The DI Operating System

Reversing the polarity of how healthcare works.

The NHS plans backwards. National policy dictates services, services dictate staffing. The patient is an afterthought. Trusts and ICBs inherit a model that was never designed around the people it serves.

The Strasys Platform reverses this. We rebuild healthcare from the perspective of the patient and population.

Independently recognised

FT Leading Consultancy HSJ Gold Award HPMA Excellence HealthInvestor

The Decision Continuum.

We call this the SMASH Approach. Traditional planning forces patients into pre-built organisational silos. We use decision intelligence to map from the Consumer back to the Policy, reversing the direction of healthcare design.

Strasys: Consumer → Policy Current NHS: Policy → Patient

Select a step to explore its products and solutions

Step 01 · The Human Baseline

Consumer Need & Demand

Population Health Management only looks at disease states. We analyse human behaviours, motivations, and unmet needs, then forecast true demand based on those behavioural segments. If you don't understand why a demographic accesses care in a particular way, your demand model will fail before it starts.

The Full Architecture.

Our approach is holistic, but deployment is modular. We apply targeted intelligence to solve specific, high-risk operational failures across the continuum.

Strasys Maternity Index

AI-driven maternity benchmarking aligned to Ockenden, CNST, and CQC Well-Led standards, turning complexity into clarity for safer outcomes.

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Workforce Decision Intelligence

Segmentation analytics to improve productivity, wellness, and retention through needs-based workforce planning.

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Consultant Workforce Optimisation

Workforce Physics™: forensic data triangulation to reclaim clinical productivity and release trapped value from lost PAs.

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Clinical Service Review

A unique, objective, and unbiased approach to reviewing clinical services. Evidence-based insights that rebuild trust and enable confident decisions.

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Board Operating System (SBOS)

Better decisions. Better boards. Better outcomes. Creating relentless focus, clarity, and board capability for NHS leaders.

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Strasys Value Index

Understanding and releasing the trapped value in the NHS. A smarter lens on financial efficiency to improve outcomes.

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We start here

Consumer Needs

Mapping population behaviours, motivations, and unmet needs to define what communities truly require from healthcare. The human baseline that drives every decision downstream.

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The Ultimate Application

Holistic System Redesign

Reimagining entire care networks, across trusts and ICBs, requires every step of the SMASH continuum. We utilise all seven modules to architect systems that are clinically and financially viable at both place and system level.

Read the Alder Hey Story
"I don't know anyone else who can do what Strasys does. The population segmentation analytics is unlike anything we'd seen. It was the first of a number of real light-bulb moments for the Board."
James Sumner

James Sumner

CEO, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS FT

HSJ Bronze Award Partnership

"Strasys helped us reimagine health and care around the needs of children and young people. The work fundamentally changed how we think about our strategy, from a hospital-centred plan to a family-centred system."
Louise Shepherd CBE

Louise Shepherd CBE

CEO, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

HSJ Gold Award Partnership

Responsible AI in Healthcare

Our AI augments human decision-making. It does not replace clinical judgement. Every algorithm is explainable, every recommendation is traceable, and every decision remains with the humans who carry responsibility for patient care.
See it in action

From raw data to executive action.

Our products don't just show dashboards. They show decisions: what to do, what it costs if you don't, and the evidence trail your board needs for CQC, Ockenden, and NHS England assurance.

Predictive, not retrospective

Forecasting demand 90 days ahead, not reporting what happened last quarter.

Behavioural segmentation built in

Every metric linked to consumer need, not just clinical categories.

Board-ready evidence trails

Every recommendation traceable and explainable for CQC Well-Led and regulatory assurance.

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Questions leaders ask us.

Decision Intelligence is a discipline that combines data science, behavioural analytics, and AI to convert complex healthcare data into confident executive decisions. Unlike traditional business intelligence which reports what happened, Decision Intelligence predicts what will happen and recommends what to do about it. It bridges the gap between raw data and executive action.

Traditional NHS planning works from policy downward: national targets dictate organisational form, which dictates services, which dictates staffing. The patient enters last. Strasys reverses this polarity. We start with consumer needs, behaviours, and motivations, then design demand models, workforce structures, service models, and governance that serve those needs. Policy becomes an output of evidence, not the starting point.

SMASH is Strasys's proprietary 7-step Decision Continuum that maps the full arc of healthcare system design: from Consumer Need and Demand through Workforce Skills, Service and Care Models, Organisation Form, Financial Efficiency, Regulatory Compliance, to Policy Translation. Each step has corresponding Strasys products and advisory services. The methodology is designed to be deployed modularly or holistically depending on the challenge.

Traditional consultancies sell hours. Infrastructure vendors build data pipes. Strasys is neither. We are a Decision Intelligence firm with proprietary named products that deploy in days, not months. Our products keep working after the consultants leave, converting NHS data into executive action at a fraction of the cost of generalist firms.

See the platform applied to your system.

A short conversation can clarify fit and priorities. We'll show you how the Decision Continuum maps to your trust's specific challenges.